The Sill of the World

audacious A cockroach scales the chrome and neon walls of the ice cream parlor like a sci-fi hero. bluster A storm whips the houses, clo...

… she would cut off her arm for these sisters of hers with the same knife she held at the tenderest spot in their hearts. That's Cleo, t...

From a walk a few weeks ago, several miles along the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan.

application Tentative fingers and solemn attention as she plays a two-handed piece on the keyboard. finds Blue shells, brown leaves and ...

Title: Death of a Traveling Salesman Author: Eudora Welty Where I read it: The Oxford Book of the American South R.J. Bowman, a travelin...

disencumber She talks like someone who hasn't had anyone hear her for a long time. distorted The grand hall is dark and full of musi...

Somehow my American girlhood went by without a single reading of Little Women . So for the Classics Club Challenge , I read it. I can't...